moss sunset

timely distinction between the blandness of algorithmic simulacrum and the authenticity of drawing. drawing is seeing, is how I was taught design. machines can never see, they only record.

typography manifestos are how I relax

Good on alt text. I would have guessed a 1 post/day average, room to get that number down a little. anisota.net/harvest/

Aaand scanned. It came together. I was a bit worried for a while there. Sime illustrated this one so I had to bring absolutely everything I had, but also go in a different direction . Colouring this and others soon.

If you are a dev & want to prep for a tech interview doing a full mock (45 mins, either architectural white boarding OR reviewing a project you did as if it were a take home or something) please hmu I'd love to help folks who've been looking get work hitting the holidays/new year all are welcome

patternsketch

Bodied by my eldest , frankly

sometimes tell clients I can instantly generate a near-100% click-through rate on their homepage …by replacing the homepage with a single green button in the middle of the screen that says "click here to enter" once we agree how useless that would be, it helps push them to articulate actual goals

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everyone: we want sovereign data and an EU technology industry EU: we have a technology industry at home that can do sovereign data everyone: technology industry or just SAP again?

"when you get to the point make sure that I’m still awake"

Obara Kozan, "Moonlit White Plum"

bäst, swoon, faile, revs and cost, silent barn, dba, japanther, bike kill, monstertrack, trackstar, lakeside lounge, pearl paint, time's up, wreck room, trash bar, abandoned waterfronts, paying rent in cash, paper subway maps, sketchy "is this a car service or am I being voluntarily kidnapped?" cars

Ladies & Gentlemen, without further ado, let us present to you the 550 year old Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham

church

leaf watching

I find it useful to remember that a computer can be 100% faithfully simulated by a sufficiently large number of marbles rolling down little chutes

accidentally tapping sparkles that were snuck into primary UI locations in every app very nice

truly believe if our brains could intuitively visualize the difference between million, billion, and trillion, the world would be a very different place.

eyebeam.org/executive-di... big transition time for an org that changed my life and the lives of so many artists, hope they find someone with the vision, fortitude, and courage its legacy deserves

as someone who stares at screens for a living, I weirdly could not care less about them. I design and code on a 14" laptop screen. I have a random monitor I almost never use.

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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

watch the skies, traveler

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

in my 20s: hoodies jeans sneakers + laptop stickers because comfort and fun in my 30s: button-down pants and shoes + clean laptop because I am an adult in my 40s: hoodies jeans sneakers stickers + laptop stickers because comfort and fun is good actually

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ads are editable content in NYC

The @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social JSON viewer got better in @firefoxnightly.bsky.social : the console offers access to the original json data via `$json`. This allows to easily manipulate the underlying data to get what you want

Abundance of imagery, absence of meaning

new york women will apply eyeliner flawlessly while bouncing through 100-year-old subway tunnels on a train that keeps slamming the breaks I'd blind myself

graphic nature

libraries are closer to what the early internet was all about than what it is today. unsurprising, given the web's academic origins. they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.

hopescrolling

"Cheney did all of this because his deepest conviction was that the presidency was an elected monarchy." napkin math says 58% of the US was younger than voting age in 2000. I'm curious how far back they perceive the roots of what's happening today.

if you don't believe artists actually do anything, if you can't tell the difference between something a robot generated and something a human created, then you'll think it's pretty exciting that you paid less for the same result. innovation!

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incredible stuff

NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway

These are now being generated from eBird checklists. I need to sort out a bunch of things but they're fun for testing. Colors of birds extracted from Wikipedia descriptions. 🪶

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how my dog feels every October 31st evening walk

Dawis bicycles 1904 Artist: Aldo Mazza